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The Taproot Podcast
by www.GetTherapyBirmingham.com
The Taproot therapy podcasts discusses trauma anthropology, philosophy, mythology and the implications of psychology on art and design. We dabble in neuroscience, brain based medicine, Jungian psychology, and various modes of artistic expression and healing. It is more poetic and literary tha most therapy podcasts and we hope that you enjoy it. Based in Birmingham Alabama, Taproot Therapy Collective is the premiere providers of therapy for severe and complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression. We provide EMDR, brainspotting, Emotional Transformation Therapy ETT, gestalt, parts based, depth psychology, somatic, and, jungian therapy as well as QEEG, brain mapping and neurostimulation.Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Taproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: [email protected] resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatm
Episodes
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Part 3: Oil, Empire, and The End
Why does therapy work when nobody can agree on how? And what happens to a civilization that forgets how to read its own record? Part three of Empire, Oil, and the Odyssey, the follow-up to the Psycho-History of American Psychology series. Some of the old corn-growing peoples said a spirit lived...
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Part 2: Science, Bureaucracy, Oil and Odyssey at the end of Empire
Oil is a psychological event, and nobody experienced it as one. For ten thousand years, every household chose nightly between eating its oil and burning it for light. Petroleum ended the choice, and this episode is about what winning did to us. Part two of the Parachute Problem finishes Nolan's...
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Part 1: Science, Bureaucracy, Oil and Odyssey at the end of Empire
The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD after the best trial results ever recorded for the disorder, because the patients could tell they were on the drug. That decision is the cleanest proof of the psycho-history series thesis: we have turned science into a ritual, and the ritual now...
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Interview with PYNK Beard
Grammy-winning songwriter and artist Sebastian Kole (aka Pynk Beard) joins Joel Blackstock on the Discover Heal Grow podcast to unpack the intersections of Southern heritage, creative deconstruction, and finding authentic human connection in a digital world. From the pews of his parents' church…
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Part 9: A Psycho-History of American Psychology - It's What You (Don't) See
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. American psychiatry has built a sociological armor around itself that protects it from reform. The armor has two parts. Reverence and complexity. Together they form the most effective institutional defense system in American professional life. And...
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Part 8: A Psycho-History of American Psychology- You must never listen to this, It should be destroyed!
Episode 8: The AI Therapist, the Generational Wound, and the Real Medicine Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. The American mental health workforce is on track to be displaced by AI within ten years—and the psychiatric establishment isn't fighting it. They are welcoming it. Backed…
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Part 7 - A Psycho-History of American Psychology: Those That Walk Away from Omelas
If you have ever felt like a failure because the "evidence-based" protocol didn't fix you, or if you are a clinician feeling the crushing weight of a system that rewards compliance over competence—this episode is your validation. The wall is hollow. The science has become science-flavored...
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Part 6 - A Psychohistory of American Psychology: Please DO NOT Mangle, Spindle or Mutilate Me
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. In July 1979, Jimmy Carter went to Camp David for ten days and came back with the strangest speech a sitting American president has ever given. Officially it was about energy. Functionally it was about the soul. Eighteen months later, Ronald…
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Part 5 A Psychohistory of American Psychology: The Wound that Speaks
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. In Episode 5 of Psychotherapy on the Couch, the host explores a profound and unsettling premise: psychosis, paranoia, and conspiracy theories are not random malfunctions of the brain. Rather, they are the language our culture uses to express its...
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Part 4: A Psychohistory of American Psychology: Too Fuzzy, Too Soft, Too Big
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. In 1960, two Harvard professors took psilocybin and accidentally broke the boundaries of American psychology. What happened next is the story of a road not taken. In Episode 4 of Psychotherapy on the Couch, Joel Blackstock explores the wild, lost...
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Part 3: A Psychohistory of American Psychology: The Void and the Cure
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. In Part 3, we look at the strange psychological reality of post-World War II America. The new suburban "American Dream" offered unprecedented material wealth, but it also delivered crushing isolation, atomization, and the constant, buzzing terror…
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Part 2: A Psychohistory of American Psychology: The Myth of Normal and the American Plague
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. When the Great Depression wiped out the myth of the rugged, self-made American hero, the country was left with a massive psychological void. Right on cue, Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis arrived in the U.S. with refugees fleeing Europe. Freud...
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Part 1: A Psychohistory of American Psychology: The Sun and the Clock
Listen to the music featured on the podcast here. Why do we treat our minds like broken machines? In The Psychohistory of American Psychology traces the birth of modern American psychology back to its dark, industrial roots. Before therapy, Americans processed suffering through community…
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The Spider and The Birdhouse Novella Preview
In this episode, I’m thrilled to share a very special preview with you all! I recently had a short story published in The Running Wild Anthology Number One, a fantastic collection of unique and captivating tales. Tune in as I read an exclusive excerpt from my story. If you enjoy this sneak peek…
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Collide-A-Scope: How the Internet is Fusing Our Brains and Changing Therapy, Culture and Politics
How do you know the blue you see is the same blue I see? We use the same word, but do we share the same experience? This ancient philosophical puzzle has become the defining crisis of our time. We're living through a moment where people use identical words and mean completely different…
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The Mirror World: Ghosts and Simulacra
"We built institutions that were supposed to reflect reality. But the windows became mirrors." In the second century, the Gnostics believed our world was a false reality created by a confused lesser god known as the Demiurge. Today, we are trapped in a modern equivalent: a labyrinth of metrics,...
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The Mirror World: Therapy in the Machine Age
Are we navigating reality, or just a highly optimized map of the past? In this episode, we dive into the architecture of our modern ghost story. We explore how the digital systems built to reflect our world have instead consumed it, replacing human experience with statistical prediction,...
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Tania Kalkidis on Evidence Based Practice and Clinical Training in Australia
Tania's advanced training program which is starting on February 25th: https://deepmindpt.com/deep-mind-mastery In this episode, I’m joined by Tania Kalkidis for a deep, evidence-based conversation on the growing gap between research, academic psychology, and real-world clinical practice — with a...
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Part 7: Dreams of Psychotherapy's Past, And It's Future
More @ https://gettherapybirmingham.com/ Why does modern mental health care often feel like a bureaucratic ritual rather than a healing encounter? In Part 5 of The Absence of Idols, we explore how psychiatry emptied the temple of meaning and replaced it with a checklist. We begin with the ancient...
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Part 6: Revisiting The Trap: How a Paranoid Mathematician Broke American Therapy
https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-dark-reflection-adam-curtiss-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ Why is the most therapy-literate generation in history also the most depressed? This episode traces the hidden history connecting Cold War game theory, a 1964 pop psychology bestseller,...
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Part 5: Why Can't Psychotherapists Form a Union (Spoiler Alert:They Can't) What is the RUC in Healthcare
Can Therapists Start a Union? The Antitrust Trap, the Shadow Committee, and the Economic Strangulation of American Psychotherapy Analyzing America’s Healthcare Regulations and Their Effect on Us: Why the Law Prevents Therapists from Organizing While Allowing a Private Committee to Fix Prices for...
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Part 4: Is The DSM Dying Part 2: What is a Diagnosis Anyway?
https://gettherapybirmingham.com/what-is-a-diagnosis-anyway-is-the-dsm-dying-part-2/ The Archaeology of a Label: What We Forgot About Diagnosis and Why It Matters Now The book that decides if you're sane was written by the military to process soldiers. The committees that define your mental…
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Part 3: What is BPD as a Diagnosis and How did it Get Here?
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Part 2: The Death of the DSM: Why The Book For Sanity is Making us Crazy
Is the DSM Dead? The "Bible" of Psychiatry, The Thud Experiment, and The Crisis of Diagnosis Episode Description: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/is-the-dsm-dying-rethinking-suffering/ It dictates every diagnosis you receive, every medication you’re prescribed, and every insurance dollar spent…
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Part 1: The Story Science Forgot: Why Psychotherapy Needs Narrative More Than Ever
The Story Science Forgot: Why Psychotherapy Needs Narrative More Than Ever by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 15, 2025 | 0 comments Joseph Campbell is arguably one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. If you have watched a Marvel movie or read a modern...
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The Science Behind the Light: Dr. Steven Vazquez on Inventing Emotional Transformation Therapy
Join Joel Blackstock for an extraordinary conversation with Dr. Steven Vazquez, the inventor of Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT), as he reveals the 25-year scientific journey that led to one of the most innovative breakthroughs in trauma treatment. From skeptical experimentation to treating...
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From Skeptic to Believer: MJ Denis on the Science of Emotional Transformation Therapy
https://mjdenis.com/whoismjdenis Join Joel Blackstock as he sits down with MJ Denis, LPC, LMFT, and certified ETT trainer from Austin, Texas, for an eye-opening conversation about Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT) - a groundbreaking approach that integrates light, color, and neuroscience to...
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Tim Faust on How Medicaid Expansion Saves Lives and Money
In this eye-opening episode of the Discover Heal Grow podcast, host Joel Blackstock sits down with healthcare policy expert Timothy Faust to demystify America's complex healthcare system. They explore how Medicaid expansion actually saves states money, why cutting healthcare funding costs more in...
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Walter Sorrells on Japanese Bladesmithing, Martial Arts, and the Artisan's Journey
Walter Sorrells Blades (Japanese sword site): https://www.waltersorrellsblades.com/ Tactix Armory (production knives): https://www.tactixarmory.com/ Sorrells Tool (new tool website): https://sorrelstool.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkLxJCuQZ4hStBfs8TCnT9Q From Novelist to Master...
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Actor Toby Huss on His Photo Essay American Sugar Gristle
Buy the Book! https://hatandbeard.com/products/american-sugargristle-by-toby-huss What if the secret to understanding America was hidden in gas station graffiti? Why does actor Toby Huss photograph truck stops instead of sunsets? And how did abstract painting help him process MDMA therapy…
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The Body Holds The Trauma: Adam O'Brien on Dissociation, Addiction & Why Ketamine Treatment is Backwards
Is your therapist accidentally making your dissociation worse? Why does ketamine - a dissociative drug - keep getting prescribed for dissociative disorders? And what if everything we think we know about treating trauma is backwards?...
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 5: Casting New Gods from Forgotten Bars of Gold
The ancient wisdom that keeps coming back because it's true Athens, 399 BCE. Socrates holds the cup of hemlock, about to die for something that can't be proven - only known. The daimonion. The inner voice. The shamanic function that guides from beyond rational thought. 2,400 years later, we call…
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 4: Empty, Dull, Thud, The Satanic Panic and the Scientific Method
How therapy became a computer program and lost its soul 1973: A researcher walks into a psychiatric hospital claiming to hear voices saying "empty, hollow, thud." He's immediately diagnosed with schizophrenia and held for weeks. The twist? He's perfectly sane. It's all an experiment to prove...
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 3: No Body, No Soul, No Discharge in the War
From genius discovery to UFO battles: The man who found trauma in the body Wilhelm Reich made one of psychology's greatest discoveries: The body remembers what the mind forgets. Trauma doesn't just live in thoughts and memories - it's held in muscle tension, breathing patterns, and physical armor...
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 2 Carl Jung: The Bottom of Consciousness
The mystic who mapped the soul while America decided it was too scary https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-weird-history-of-psychotherapy-part-2-jungs-and-the-bottom-of-consciousness/ While Freud was projecting his trauma onto patients, Carl Jung made a radical discovery: There's a layer of mind...
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The Weird History of Psychotherapy Part 1 Freud: A Different Version of Your Dad
The cocaine addict who convinced the world children want to sleep with their parents Vienna, 1866. Ten-year-old Sigmund Freud watches antisemitic thugs knock his father's hat into the mud. Jakob Freud picks it up, head down, and walks on. This moment of paternal humiliation would shape the entire...
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Jungian Addiction Recovery with Corey Gamberg
Addiction Recovery Psychology: Jung, 12-Step Evolution & Depth Therapy Breakthrough with Recovery Expert 🎯 ADDICTION RECOVERY | PSYCHOLOGY | THERAPY | MENTAL HEALTH | SPIRITUALITY Discover the revolutionary integration of Jungian psychology and addiction recovery with Corey Gamberg, Executive...
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The Psychology of the Katana: Exploring Japanese Swords, Bushido & Warrior Philosophy
Join therapist Joel Blackstock, martial artist James Waites, and esoteric practitioner Alice Hawley as they delve into the fascinating world of Japanese swords. This episode explores the metallurgy, history, and psychological significance of the katana – from its invention by Masamune after the...
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Crosspost: The Psyche Podcast with Quique Autrey
Embark on a captivating journey into the depths of Jungian psychology with hosts Quique Autrey and Joel Blackstock. In this episode, Joel shares his unique perspectives on a wide range of topics, including: The potential oversimplification of Jung's ideas by American Jungians How neurology is...
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Therapy Round Table: Lifespan Integration
Explore the transformative power of Lifespan Integration therapy in this enlightening episode of the Taproot Therapy Collective podcast. Join host Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S, as he interviews three expert LI practitioners: Marie Danner, Kristan Baer, and Pamela Hayes. These skilled therapists share...
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Therapy Roundtable: Challenging Mental Health Orthodoxy and The Evidence Based Paradigm
Tired of mental health podcasts that just tell you to breathe deeply? Discover + Heal + Grow from Taproot Therapy Collective brings you honest, sometimes irreverent conversations about the real challenges in psychology and therapy today. In this episode, Joel Blackstock, James Waites, Alice…
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Parts Based Archetypal Psychology Meditation for Trauma and Knowing the Self
Ultimate Archetype Meditation for Inner Healing and Self-Discovery | Tapoo Therapy Collective Welcome to the Ultimate Archetype Meditation guided by Joel from the Tapoo Therapy Collective Podcast! 🌟 This transformative meditation, rooted in Jungian psychology and Internal Family Systems (IFS)...
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👻🧪The Ghost Lab: Pseudoscience Science and The Supernatural with Matt Hongoltz HetlingThe Ghost Lab: Science, Pseudoscience and the Supernatural with Matt Hongoltz Hetling
Preorder the Book: https://amzn.to/3RzDcaH Checkout our episode with Matt from last year when you are done. We sit down with Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and George Polk Award winner renowned for his incisive local reporting. As a reporter for the Valley News in New Hampshire,...
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Guided Meditation For Fear or Phobia
Immerse yourself in the transformative world of Ericksonian hypnosis with this powerful guided meditation for overcoming phobias and healing trauma. Inspired by the revolutionary therapeutic methods of Dr. Milton Erickson, the brilliant psychiatrist who fathered modern hypnotherapy, this deeply...
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Therapy Roundtable: Psychology of Dragons: Archetypes of Unconsious Energy in Politics, Art, and Hero Making
In this episode of Discover Heal Grow, we delve into the rich psychological tapestry woven around dragons, exploring how these mythical beasts have occupied our collective imagination and served as powerful archetypes for both terror and transformation. Episode Overview We begin by tracing dragon...
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Guided Meditation for Releasing Anger & Obligation: A Journey of Paradox and Peace
This deeply transformative meditation, based on the groundbreaking approaches of psychiatrist Milton Erickson and psychotherapist Bill O'Hanlon, guides you on a gentle inner journey to release anger and the weight of obligation. Through artful storytelling, naturalistic trance, and the strategic...
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Alabama Medicaid Expansion with Dr. Madeline Eckenrode
Alabama physician Dr. Madeline Eckenrode gives an insider's view of the suffering caused by the state's failure to expand Medicaid. Hear harrowing stories of patients with diabetes, substance use disorders and other chronic conditions who can't afford care. Learn how Medicaid expansion would…
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Therapy Round Table
Join therapists Joel Blackstock, Alice Hawley, and James Waites as we dive deep into the fascinating intersection of trauma therapy, psychology, and everyday life. Our roundtable discussions explore everything from clinical approaches to the psychology behind pop culture, spirituality, and the...
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Somatic Jungian Parts Meditation & Archetypal Meditation on Transforming Shadow and Phobic States 🧘♀️✨🌌💖🌀😌🔮💡🌱🙏🎧🌟📖💬💞
Welcome to this transformative guided meditation designed to help you connect with the wisdom of your inner parts and integrate shadow experiences with compassion. In this meditation, you’ll gently explore where your distressing emotions reside in your body and invite them into a dialogue with…
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Learn How to Integrate qEEG into your clinical practice with Peak Neuroscience
Blog - https://gettherapybirmingham.com/integrating-qeeg-brainmapping-into-your-clinical-practice/ Podcast - https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/ Youtube - https://youtu.be/kDoaCiEz5T0 Join us for an exclusive interview with the visionary owners of Peak Neuroscience as they share expert...
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The Taproot therapy podcasts discusses trauma anthropology, philosophy, mythology and the implications of psychology on art and design. We dabble in neuroscience, brain based medicine, Jungian psychology, and various modes of artistic expression and healing. It is more poetic and literary tha most therapy podcasts and we hope that you enjoy it. Based in Birmingham Alabama, Taproot Therapy Collective is the premiere providers of therapy for severe and complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression. We provide EMDR, brainspotting, Emotional Transformation Therapy ETT, gestalt, parts based, depth psychology, somatic, and, jungian therapy as well as QEEG, brain mapping and neurostimulation.Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Taproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: [email protected] resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatm
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